The National Assembly has earmarks N125billion for its 2017 budget, up from N115billion in 2016.
Under the arrangement, total personnel cost is N23,789,787,880 while total overhead cost is N85,878,619,888; total capital cost will gulp N14,940,196,063.
A breakdown of the estimates indicates that the National Assembly gets N14.9billion; Senate, N31.3billion; House of Representatives, N49billion; National Assembly Service Commission, N2.4billion; legislative aides, N9.6billion; Public Accounts Committee (Senate), N118.9million; Public Accounts Committee (Reps), N142.7million; general services, N12.5billion; National Assembly Legislative Institute, N4.3billion; and service wide vote, N391.3million.